A Pairrebenne Trawlwoolway woman from Tebrakunna Country in northeast Trouwerner (Tasmania), Dr Lauren Tynan’s research areas encompass human geography and Indigenous studies, developing original methodological approaches, and contending with ethics, climate change and land management issues. In 2025 her PhD was awarded without correction. It is entitled Kin and Country: Relational Research, Cultural Fire and Indigenous Futurities. With an interest in Indigenous and decolonising methodologies, Lauren’s research focuses on relationality with Country, largely through Aboriginal cultural burning practices and fire.

Relevant links/articles:

Tynan, Lauren. (2020). Thesis as kin: living relationality with research. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 16. 117718012094827. 10.1177/1177180120948270.

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